Coming to grips with what you can and can’t control opens the door to true emotional freedom and personal power.

The road to empowerment lies where you can exercise control on yourself, not on others.

Coming to grips with what you can and can’t control opens the door to true emotional freedom and personal power.

I frequently receive questions about what to do in situations where someone is behaving in an unloving way, or a way that’s painful for them.

For example:

My co-worker never answers emails, making it very hard for me to do my work, as I need his input.

My wife never wants to make love.

People often ask me intrusive questions that I don’t want to answer.

My husband is often late and never calls to let me know he is going to be late for dinner.

My friend got together with a bunch of our friends for lunch and didn’t invite me.

My parents are forever criticizing me.

I often feel invaded and demanded of by family and friends.

My husband sits at the table when we go out to dinner absorbed with his phone instead of talking with me.

My children are disrespectful toward me.

My wife has a male friend whom she talks with all the time and sometimes meets for lunch, even though I’ve told her I’m uncomfortable with their relationship.

My wife often wants to talk about what I’m doing wrong.

Two Healthy Choices in Conflict

It is important to remember that we have only two healthy ways of dealing with conflict – two loving responses when another is behaving in a way that is upsetting or hurtful to us.

We can move into an intent to learn about ourselves and with the other person to try to understand the other’s behavior, and discover if there is anything we are doing that is contributing to the issue.

If the other person is not open to learning with us or they are not someone we are interested in learning with, then the only other loving action is to lovingly disengage from the situation, and then do our own Inner Bonding process to discover what the loving action is for ourselves.

This is what you DO have control over.

What you DON’T have control over is getting the other person to change.

Moving into an intent to learn with the other person may bring about new learning that changes the situation between you, but this is not a given. You may still need to do your own Inner Bonding process to discover your own loving action.

Here is where your guidance comes into the picture.

By opening to learning with your guidance about what you need to do for yourself in the face of the other’s choices, you become empowered to control what you can control – your own loving actions on your own behalf. This is what moves you out of feeling like a victim and into emotional freedom.

It is only when you 100% accept your total lack of control over others and outcomes that you can fully access the wisdom of your guidance. As long as there is any intent to control, your frequency will remain too low to discover the loving action for yourself.

CO-CREATOR OF INNER BONDING Dr. Paul is the author/co-author of several best-selling books, including Do I Have To Give Up Me to Be Loved By You, Inner Bonding, Healing Your Aloneness, The Healing Your Aloneness Workbook, Do I Have To Give Up Me to Be Loved By My Kids, and Do I Have To Give Up Me To Be Loved By God Dr. Paul's books have been distributed around the world and have been translated into eleven languages. Dr. Margaret holds a Ph.D. in psychology and is a relationship expert, noted public speaker, workshop leader, educator, chaplain, consultant, and artist. She has appeared on many radio and TV shows, including the Oprah show. She has successfully worked with thousands of individuals, couples and business relationships and taught classes and seminars since 1967. Margaret continues to work with individuals and couples throughout the world on the phone and on Skype. She is able to access her own and her client's spiritual Guidance during her sessions, which enables her to work with people wherever they are in the world. Her current passion is working on and developing content for this Website, as well as distributing SelfQuest, the software program that teaches Inner Bonding and is donated to prisons and schools, as well as sold to the general public. Margaret Paul, PhD information Anxious, Depressed, Addicted, Empty, Relationship struggles, Inner Bonding - The Power To Heal Yourself! http://www.innerbonding.com